TagsTagsI just discovered this rather rare music video for the harmonic crunch classic, Dogman by King’s X. [Video]
Perhaps the greatest music video ever made. [Video]
Andy McKee: The Art of Motion. [Video]
“It breaks my heart to see those stars, smashing a perfectly good guitar.” Never better said. [Video]
Here’s a John Hiatt classic, “Have a Little Faith in Me,” with an excellent gospel choir providing backup vocals. [Video]
British singer Kirsten Price asks, “What will you do with your freedom?” [Video] (Hat tip: Tammy Bruce.)
Live in Barcelona in 1992, the Brecker Brothers rip through their classic high-energy, harmonically twisted fusion tune Skunk Funk. A lot faster than the original recorded version. Sacrificing some of the funk for a little more skunk. [Video]
Just discovered this classically weird video by Tom Waits at YouTube: I Don’t Wanna Grow Up. [Video] When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night I don’t wanna grow up Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right I don’t wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog That’s always changing things Makes me wish ...
Surrealistically extruded pompadours, proto-Southern rock, and the Red Army Choir singing backup. Blame Finland for this one. [Video]
LGF, Open Thread, Video, Music, Finland
Tonight’s shredfest features blues monster Joe Bonamassa. [Video]
At the Hamburg venue of Al Gore’s global warming advertisement, Live Earth, one of the featured performers (added at the last minute to boost weak ticket sales) is popstar turned radical Islamist Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam, aka Yusuf. In Hamburg, where hip-shaking Colombian sensation Shakira, British songstress Katie Melua and ...
LGF, Al Gore, Global Warming, Live Earth, Music, Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam
Here’s a great new video from metal-rap band Stuck Mojo, “I’m American.” Right in time for the Fourth! [Video] Stuck Mojo was thrust into the national spotlight earlier this year when the “Open Season” video caught the attention of the blogosphere. Not only was it unusual to see a hard rock band ...
LGF, Video, Music, Stuck Mojo
Here’s an open thread for a Monday evening, with finger picking by Craig D’Andrea: [Video]
Steve Vai and Andy Timmons in an unabashed shredfest, with Simon Phillips on drums. [Video]
From a 1967 concert in Sweden, arguably the greatest jazz quintet ever—Miles Davis, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock—performing Footprints. [Video]
A little fusion bluegrass from the master of the dobro, Jerry Douglas. Hat included at no extra charge: [Video]
The audio isn’t great, and there’s no flashy editing, and you don’t even get to see his fingers, but nonetheless this is a great performance from Bruce Hornsby in a Portland music store: [Video]
Here’s the late Chris Whitley with the classic title track from his amazing debut album [Amazon Link]. [Video]
Bluegrass par excellence from Chris Thile and How to Grow a Band, performing Song for a Young Queen. [Video]
What the heck. We already brought up one of the long-shunned LGF topics today; so here’s one of the others. But at least you can dance to it. [Video]
Dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas performs “A Tribute to Peador O’Donnell,” segueing, for some reason known only to Jerry, into “Monkey Let the Hogs Out.” Oh yeah. (This is available on the album: [Amazon Link].) [Video]